I want you to tell me. It’s a book that doesn’t currently exist. It is a work of non-fiction. The author must be living. It must be a work the author could plausibly write. It doesn’t have to be a close cousin of a book the author has already written.
So you could request "Jared Diamond on sexual selection" but not "Joseph Stiglitz on the early history of Ghenghis Khan."
Do please tell us your pick. Comments are open…
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A book on medical economics by a first rate economist (hint hint) Topics: lifetime and annual cost of various diseases and conditions ; cost of activities like smoking, drug use, athletics, sex, pregnancy, abortion; costs of quality control, malpractice, dispute resolution; administrative costs; what consumes insurance premiums e.g. major rare conditions, chronic conditions, routine emergencies, wellness care; payoffs to screening e.g. colonoscopy, breast, Pap, stress EKG; tradeoffs in low probability of success treatments especially versus hospice care, tradeoffs with less highly paid and trained personnel performing various tasks, tradeoffs in cheaper treatment versus more expensive but only slightly better treatment. One book, easy to read, but with lots of data.
Tyler Cowen : “Principles of economy”
“Richard Feynman on many topics would be it for me” I second that.
Cowen: How I know so much about so much.
Krugman, Delong, or Thoma: My perfect America and how I’d pay for it.
Pinker: The languages of music and the mind: Why Western music is our only universal music.
Netanyahu and Mashaal (separately): The Holy Land in 2050 and how we get there.
Colin Powell: Republicans and Democrats, similarities and differences
Tyler Cowen and Robin Hanson – the rise of individualism and the struggle towards immortality: a reconsolidation of western identity.
a book by previous poster, Limited by Language. on how not to make a contribution to interesting discourse, and what it will soon feel like when a little chlorine is added into the gene pool in which he/she swims
Han Hermann Hoppe: “Friedrich A. von Hayek”
Thomas Sowell: “All things Normative”
Walter Williams: “Autobiography”
Whatever book Will Wilkinson is working on up in the mid-West right now.
Tyler Cowen on the spiritual use of drugs such as marijuana, mescalin or psilocybin.
Oh boy! How I racked my brains for this!
There are so many, but I’ll settle for:
Umberto Eco – Secrets of Byzantium
John Alford. The Extinction of the Liberal Phenotype in the West: Natural, Sexual, and Articial Selection’s Impact on the Political Economy of Developed States. Rice University Press.
Wen Jiaobao. A Political Autiobiography. Renmin University Press.
Jiang Zemin. Beijing Spring, Shanghai Summer: Why 1989 was peaceful for my city, but not the nation’s capital. Renmin University Press.
George W. Bush, writing his memoirs, especially on the 9-11 crisis, and how he lied and manipulated the American people into attacking the wrong country, entitled: “My Pet Goat II: The Revenge”
How come very high IQ men can achive a lot,despite drinking alcohol, I’m thinking along the lines of Chruchill,Benjamin Franklin etc etc,wheeras if I even drink a few beers I have difficulty remembering telephone numbers the next day?
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